Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, on Mount Calvary. What Isaac foretold is realized in full in Christ. Isaac is the bridge ...

(Reading: Genesis 22:1-19) The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah.

More important, Mount Moriah is the site of the “Foundation Stone,” the rock where Abraham tied his son Isaac in the biblical story of the binding of Isaac.Muslims believe the same stone is ...

Isaac was on the way to Mount Moriah with his father; then he lay on the altar, bound, waiting to be sacrificed. My heart began to beat even faster; it actually sobbed with pity for Isaac. Behold ...

If Abraham believed that Ishmael would survive the desert, he would believe that Isaac would survive Mt. Moriah. Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Ishmael, his least loved son, left God no ...

When Abraham and Isaac leave home en route to Mt. Moriah, as we read last week in the Torah, they departed from Beersheba, for this is where Abraham and his two accompanying ‘’young men ...

In Abraham’s cryptic reply, we glimpse the depths of his anguish. Moving ahead to the critical moment on Mount Moriah, the story is told in such plain, direct language that there is nowhere for ...

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

Abraham takes his only son, Isaac, up to Mount Moriah to make a sacrifice to God. Thankfully, Isaac is not sacrificed after God tests Abraham. Nevertheless, this is still one of the most essential ...

His feature debut film, "His Only Son," depicts the account of Abraham's three-day journey up Mount Moriah to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering, as explained in Genesis.